CDW

Solution Architect I – Cloud

CDW

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerKubernetesTerraform

About the role

  • Consult with multiple clients simultaneously to understand business and technical needs
  • Be a trusted advisor to assigned clients; help align customer expectations with best practices
  • Develop strategic roadmaps and project plans based on customer goals
  • Work with clients and Project Managers to set expectations, drive alignment, and coordinate timelines
  • Identify areas for cost savings through options such as autoscaling, right-sizing, and elimination of waste within the customer’s AWS environments
  • Identify security gaps and develop best practice recommendations to help strengthen client security posture
  • Document and present recommendations to customers, including senior leadership
  • Translate customer requirements into LOE estimates, design documents and keep project tracking boards up to date
  • Provide guidance to Cloud Engineers as they implement customer roadmaps
  • Quality check engineering work; ensure top quality work and customer satisfaction
  • Train customers in management and maintenance of new or upgraded environments
  • Support Presales Cloud Solutions Architects in proposal design and positioning
  • Document time spent on customer activities; record activities daily in Jira with weekly timecard submissions in Mavenlink
  • Mentor Cloud Engineers

Requirements

  • Experience working in a customer-facing consulting role
  • Experience developing project roadmaps, LOE estimates, and design documents
  • Ability to lead customer facing projects, assigning work to teams, and quality checking engineering work
  • Ability to translate technical requirements to a non-technical audience
  • Ability to present solutions to customers, overcoming objectives, and creating consensus
  • Ability to deploy AWS infrastructure using IAC tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation
  • Ability to build CI pipelines and automation (build, test, performance)
  • Ability to design and build containerization solutions (infrastructure, pipelines, automation) using docker (dockerfiles, ECS, ECS Fargate) or kubernetes (manifests, helm and deployment tooling, KOPS, EKS, EKS, or Fargate)
  • Understanding of AWS security controls, network boundary controls and related toolsets
  • Knowledge of AWS’s Well-Architected Framework
  • Ability to work with one or more scripting languages
  • Occasional off-hours support, depending on client's need
  • AWS Professional-level Certification (required within 6 months of employment)
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformCloudFormationCI pipelinesautomationDockerKubernetesscripting languagesAWS security controlsWell-Architected Framework
Soft Skills
consultingcustomer-facingleadershipcommunicationmentoringpresentationproblem-solvingcollaborationquality assurancetraining
Certifications
AWS Professional-level Certification